A Quote by Fred Allen

He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.

Fred Allen

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Fred Allen
American - Comedian
May 31, 1894 - March 17, 1956

I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.

Steven Morrissey

The only time we got sugary cereal was when my mom went away for the weekend and she bought us Frosted Flakes because she wanted us to behave. Otherwise, we were eating shredded wheat, granola, or Grape Nuts.

Timothy Olyphant

In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.

Jorge Cruise

You know what Ken Lay had for breakfast this morning? Shredded Wheat.

Jay Leno

Terms are like shredded wheat - two are wonderful, but three might just be too many.

David Cameron

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

Linda Pastan

Im like a man whos been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

Daniel Keyes

I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.

Ben Hogan

I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.

Chris Van Allsburg

For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place.

Frank McCourt

I love the feeling of shredded wheat. I love healthy bird food with a fun-to-eat feel. Then you spray them with sugar, and I'm there.

Penn Jillette

The moment I wake up, I have to eat. If I don't eat, I feel like my blood pressure is dropping. I get crabby if I have gone more than half an hour without eating.

Esha Gupta

Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I remember this one time I had a dream about me writing a screenplay, and when I woke up, you know those dreams that feel so real, but I woke up and I was like, 'Oh my god I have this amazing screenplay I need to write down as soon as I wake up' and then I woke up and I was like what the heck was I dreaming of?

Joseph Benavidez

After my first week of no wheat, my stomachaches were gone, my mucous cleared up, and I felt incredibly energetic. My headaches were also less frequent and less severe, and I had lost 3 pounds, most of it swelling and water weight my body had been holding onto as part of its response to the wheat products in my diet.

Daphne Oz

I've said I'll stand for a full second term, but I think after that it will be time for new leadership. Terms are like Shredded Wheat - two are wonderful but three might just be too many.

David Cameron

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